Employees go to work at the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue Processing and Distribution Center in Stamford on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Originally, postal officials were planning to shut down the processing center in 2014, but because of a decline in First Class mail and employee pension obligations, officials are now planning to accelerate the shut down of the facility.
Photo: Jason Rearick

Employees go to work at the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue...

Employees go to work at the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue Processing and Distribution Center in Stamford on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Originally, postal officials were planning to shut down the processing center in 2014, but because of a decline in First Class mail and employee pension obligations, officials are now planning to accelerate the shut down of the facility.
Photo: Jason Rearick

Employees go to work at the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue...

Employees go to work at the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue Processing and Distribution Center in Stamford on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Originally, postal officials were planning to shut down the processing center in 2014, but because of a decline in First Class mail and employee pension obligations, officials are now planning to accelerate the shut down of the facility.
Photo: Jason Rearick

Employees go to work at the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue...

Don Utz, Connnecticut state executive board member of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union local 300, speaks to the media outside the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue Processing and Distribution Center in Stamford on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Originally, postal officials were planning to shut down the processing center in 2014, but because of a decline in First Class mail and employee pension obligations, officials are now planning to accelerate the shut down of the facility.
Photo: Jason Rearick

Don Utz, Connnecticut state executive board member of the National...

Cheryl Ingstrum, vice president of the American Postal Workers Union local 240, at the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue Processing and Distribution Center in Stamford on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Originally, postal officials were planning to shut down the processing center in 2014, but because of a decline in First Class mail and employee pension obligations, officials are now planning to accelerate the shut down of the facility.
Photo: Jason Rearick

Cheryl Ingstrum, vice president of the American Postal Workers...

A truck leaves the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue Processing and Distribution Center in Stamford on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Originally, postal officials were planning to shut down the processing center in 2014, but because of a decline in First Class mail and employee pension obligations, officials are now planning to accelerate the shut down of the facility.
Photo: Jason Rearick

A truck leaves the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue Processing and...

A postal vehicle drives in front of the U.S. Postal Service's West Avenue Processing and Distribution Center in Stamford on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Originally, postal officials were planning to shut down the processing center in 2014, but because of a decline in First Class mail and employee pension obligations, officials are now planning to accelerate the shut down of the facility.
Photo: Jason Rearick